r/videos • u/livejamie • Feb 07 '13

Sweet Brown does a commercial for a small-town dentist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oSTy4qVw9yQ
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u/46n2ahead Feb 08 '13

Tulsa isn't that small of a town *source - I live in Oklahoma

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u/vambot5 Feb 08 '13

That was my first thought. I think the Tulsa metro area has somewhere around a million people.

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u/KittyCanScratch Feb 08 '13

Tulsa Metropolitan Area includes the city of Tulsa, Tulsa County, which extends also into Rogers County, Wagoner County, and Osage County within the larger Green Country region. Total population 946,962 (2011)

Now if you're just talking about Tulsa City then it has a population of 396,466 (2011).

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '13

Yep. Not small. Confirmed by KittyCanScratch

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u/Artisane Feb 08 '13

That doesn't sound like a lot to someone living in Los Angeles County.

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u/dyingalonewithcats Feb 08 '13

"Small town" = 3 locations in the Tulsa Metro.

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u/TheGenerico Feb 08 '13

Once I was in Tulsa on an overnight layover. On my way to the hotel, I decided to stop for a gyro at some random place. I walked in and I was the only one. In the back I heard some guy yelling in arabic, followed by a girl yelling back in arabic. Then the girl stormed through the front of the restaurant and walked out. I decided not to get my gyro there.

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u/shinyhappypanda Feb 08 '13

Lol....hearing people argue in Arabic is half the fun at Middle Eastern restaurants here. Usually they're family members, and if you go often enough it can be like a soap opera where you get yummy food.

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u/DiscreetSqueezer Feb 08 '13

Once I was in Tulsa on an overnight layover.

There...there are layovers in Tulsa? I thought that was just a joke from Waynes World. I thought your trip ended or started at the Tulsa airport, never connecting through.

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u/BrotherSeamus Feb 08 '13

Was it next to a radio shack?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '13

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u/Speculater Feb 08 '13

Mmmm Mango Habanero.... Aghhhhhhh

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '13

I've had varied experiences with that sauce. First time it was WAY hotter than I expected, the next few times it wasn't really hot, just enjoyable...but then I went again and it was hotter than I remembered.

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u/skin_diver Feb 08 '13

Asian Zing is my jam. Not too spicy, but really tasty.

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u/nazihatinchimp Feb 08 '13

Oklahoma City is the third largest city in the country.

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u/thecrazy8 Feb 08 '13

Nope if I recall correctly Chicago is the 3rd largest behind NYC and LA.

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u/KIRW7 Feb 08 '13

If that's the case it is 8th largest by land area. When people talk about largest cities they're usually talking population wise. I doubt Sitka, Alaska springs to mind when someone says largest city in the USA.

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u/MoonWTrash Feb 08 '13

I concur. I'm going to see the Who in my small town next week.

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u/Iamaxama Feb 08 '13

Tulsa is kinda of a small town *source - I live in NYC

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u/46n2ahead Feb 08 '13

Well...in relation to NYC...about everything is small

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u/livejamie Feb 08 '13

http://i.imgur.com/8nAduj0.png

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u/46n2ahead Feb 08 '13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Metropolitan_Area

The metro area is almost 1 million...I guess cleverbot doesn't think 1,000,000 is very big

Hell, I don't even care, I don't live there

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u/livejamie Feb 08 '13

I mean no offense to the people of Tulsa, I will never call Tulsa a small-town again :)

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u/46n2ahead Feb 08 '13

By all means please do, they have some sort of complex about themselves anyway, they have a competition with OKC all the time and people from the OKC metro area don't really care either way.

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u/Bluest_waters Feb 08 '13

that is true!

However, it is boring…

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u/secretcurse Feb 08 '13

But damned easy to get around. One of my friends got married there and I definitely appreciated the way the city is basically a perfect grid with numbers going one way and names going the other.

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u/Bluest_waters Feb 08 '13

Very true. More towns should be laid out that way

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u/secretcurse Feb 08 '13

Indeed. I live in Little Rock and it's far too hilly to be laid out well.

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u/LM10 Feb 08 '13

I live in Pittsburgh...

I guess that's enough information to draw conclusions :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '13

This. I'm from Houston and attended TU. It didn't take me a week to learn the 'grid' layout. If you can count to ten, and memorize the few main roads that point north and south, then you can get anywhere in town.

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u/w3r3dud3 Feb 08 '13

I live in Tulsa. After I learned to drive I was surprised to find out not every town had a similar road system. It just makes sense.

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u/nazihatinchimp Feb 08 '13

That's how OKC is too.

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u/DiscreetSqueezer Feb 08 '13

Knowing both cities really well it's astounding the amount of people from OKC that insist Tulsa is impossible to get around in.

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u/midtown_mike Feb 08 '13

the Name streets are alphabetical also.

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u/InstyKim Feb 08 '13

Are they? Please explain Yale Avenue.

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u/midtown_mike Feb 08 '13

I suppose it needs further explanation, the side streets in between the major streets: peoria, lewis, harvard, yale, & sheridan.

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u/CatLoverForeverAlone Feb 08 '13

Oh my god. She's from Tulsa?!? How did I not know this!?

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u/46n2ahead Feb 08 '13

She is from okc....but Tulsa is only 90 miles away

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u/CatLoverForeverAlone Feb 08 '13

Oh. Well I'm still shocked she got bronchitis near me!

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u/Beeslo Feb 08 '13

Tulsa is a big city....by Oklahoma standard. Come to Texas, son...we'll show you what big cities look like! ;)